Places smiller3445 Wants to Go

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

A neighborhood of houses made of poured concrete through a process invented by Thomas Edison.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.